Arngolt Bekker
Arngolt Bekker (born July 18, 1935 in Jewlach , Azerbaijan ; † April 10, 2013 in Bremen ) was a Russian-German engineer and entrepreneur , founder of Stroytransgaz and Bard Holding .
Bekker comes from the German-speaking minority of the Soviet Union . Like other Germans from Russia, his parents were deported to Kazakhstan in 1941 , where he grew up. Bekker was a trained engineer. From 1964 to 1985 he held managerial positions in the state gas industry (Ministry of Gas Industry) in the Soviet Union.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990 he founded Stroytransgaz SA in Moscow, the gas pipelines (including the 1260 km long blue stream gas pipeline from the Stavropol region to Turkey , but also pipelines in Algeria and from Bulgaria to Greece ), compressor plants and They built gas storage facilities and were active in the development of gas fields. Until 2002 he was president of the company, which had sales of $ 1.5 billion that year and had 22,000 employees and offices in 14 countries. The company is closely associated with Gazprom - key Gazprom managers and their families are major shareholders, and the company has practically had a monopoly on construction contracts from Gazprom. From 1999 to 2001 he was on the Gazprom Supervisory Board . After a change in leadership at Gazprom in 2001, Bekker sold the shares he held in Stroytransgaz in 2003, presumably under pressure from the political leadership. According to an estimate by Forbes Magazine , Bekker's net worth (who had an estimated 20% stake in Stroytransgaz) was $ 340 million in 2004.
In 2003 he came to Bremen after applying to leave the country and became a German citizen. Since he was bored after moving and selling his shares and recognized the potential of wind energy in Germany, he turned to new business fields. In 2003 he built up the company for offshore wind energy Bard in Bremen, whereby both the production of the electricity and the planning and construction of the wind turbines are carried out in-house. In doing so, Bekker also benefited from his own offshore experience in pipeline construction with his old company Stroytransgaz, where the blue stream pipeline was led through the Black Sea. Starting in 2010, Bard will build the first commercial offshore wind farm BARD Offshore 1 in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea 100 km northwest of Borkum , the first of a whole series of planned wind farms of the company with 80 wind turbines each with an electrical output of 5 MW in the Northsea. To do this, they also use the Wind Lift I installation ship , which was specially built for this purpose .
In December 2010, he gave up management of the company and there were reports of intentions to sell. In addition to age reasons, financing issues were also mentioned in relation to the high investments required in the offshore sector.
Bekker was a member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation and an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Economics.
family
He was married and has four children. His daughter Natalia Bekker (* 1975, † 2009) was Managing Director at BARD Holding. The tender ship Natalia Bekker is named after her.
source
- Interview in BARD-Magazin, No. 2, 2007
References
- ^ TAZ Online, August 24, 2009, The Big Wheel . According to Bekkers' own statements (interview in 2007 in Bard Magazin), his parents used the German language in the family. His father died in 1941.
- ↑ Conversely, since 1995 they have held 5% in Gazprom. Website Russian Monopoly
- ^ TAZ Online, The Big Wheel , August 24, 2009
- ↑ Forbes, Russia's Richest 100 , 2004
- ↑ Interview in Bard Magazin 2007, he couldn't walk the dog all day
- ^ Weserkurier December 9, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bekker, Arngolt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Russian engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jewlach |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 2013 |
| Place of death | Bremen |